Full information about the following parks and visits can be found in the February 2005 issue of Practical Caravan. For back issues telephone 08456 777812. Admission Price and Opening Times were correct at the time of publishing. Please check for latest information before visiting.

Where to go: BLETCHLEY PARK, MILTON KEYNES

Location The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK3 6EB
Tel 01908 640404
Web www.bletchleypark.org.uk
Open 9.30am/10am-5.30pm every day. No admission after 2.30pm/3.30pm
Admission Adults £10. Senior citizens, children (8-16) and students £8. Under-8s free. Family £25.
 •  At Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, Allied experts helped to shorten WWII by at least two years by deciphering top-secret Nazi codes.
Visitors can take a guided tour of 'Station X', follow the Cryptology Trail, see a replica of a code-breaking machine, inspect a German Enigma code machine and marvel at Colossus: the world's first computer.

Where to stay: LINCOLN FARM PARK

Address High Street, Standlake, Witney,Oxfordshire OX8 7RH
Website www.lincolnfarm.touristnet.uk.com
Open Early February-late November

Where to go: EDEN CAMP MODERN HISTORY THEME MUSEUM

Location Malton, North Yorkshire YO17 6RT
Tel 01653 697777
Web www.edencamp.co.uk
Open Every day until December 23
Admission Adults £4, children 5-16, senior citizens and disabled £3, under-5s free
 •  This award-winning museum is based on a prisoner-of-war camp that was used to hold captured WWII Italian and German servicemen, who were then sent to work on local farms.
Thirty-five of the original huts have been fitted out to tell the story of 'The People's War', a history of life in Britain from 1939-45. Realistic tableaux, with moving figures and authentic sounds and smells, have been created to transport the visitor back in time.

Where to stay: ROWNTREE PARK CARAVAN CLUB SITE

Address Terry Avenue, York YO23 1JQ
Tel 01904 658997
Website www.caravanclub.co.uk
Open All year

Where to go: THE FLAMBARDS EXPERIENCE

Location Clodgey Lane, Helston, Cornwall TR13 0QA
Tel 0845 6018684
Web www.flambards.co.uk
Open 10am/10.30am, most days between 31 March-31 October
Admission Adult £9.95. Children (5-14) £8.95. Over-55s £5.75. Under-5s and over-80s free. Family of four £36.
 •  What started out as the Cornwall Aircraft Park nearly 30 years ago has developed into a multi-faceted major theme park.
The young at heart can come here to experience some of the best white-knuckle rides in the county, while those who prefer history will delight in the Flambards Victorian Village and Britain in the Blitz exhibition. There are also exhibits dedicated to the bravery of Cornishmen during WWII.

Where to stay: PENGOON FARM TOURING CARAVAN SITE

Address Nancegollan, Helston, Cornwall TR13 0BH
Tel 01326 561219
Web www.pengoon.co.uk Open All year

Where to go: KENT BATTLE OF BRITAIN MUSEUM TRUST

Location Aerodrome Road, Hawkinge, Nr Folkestone, Kent CT18 7AG
Tel 01303 893140
Web www.kbobm.org
Open 10am-5pm, Tuesdays to Sundays, plus bank holiday Mondays, Good Friday to 30 September
Admission Adults £3.50, senior citizens £3, children £2, under-5s free
 •  This museum is based in the original 1940s buildings of the closest RAF station to occupied France in WWII. Just ten minutes' flying time from German fighter airfields near Calais, the museum is now used to house the world's biggest collections of artefacts from the Battle of Britain, which took place in the skies above Kent and Sussex in 1940, including the finest collection of wreckage from both British and German aircraft that fought in the battle.

Where to stay: BLACK HORSE FARM CARAVAN CLUB SITE

Address 385 Canterbury Road, Densole, Folkestone
Tel 01303 892665
Website www.caravanclub.co.uk
Open All year

Where to go: LINCOLNSHIRE AIRFIELDS

Location RAF Coningsby, Dogdyke Road, Coningsby LN4 4SY
Tel 01526 344041
Web www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf
Open Weekdays 10am-5pm, occasional Saturdays
Admission Adults £3.60. Concessions £2.10. Family ticket £9.30.
 •  This area is rich in WWII history. RAF Coningsby is home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitors' Centre. A monument to the pilots of 617 Squadron, who flew the Dambuster missions in WWII, is close by in Woodhall Spa; and the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby airfield has a WWII museum. Finally, Bomber County Aviation Museum at Hemswell boasts several original buildings and aircraft from the era.

Where to stay: BAINLAND COUNTRY PARK

Address Horncastle Road, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire LN10 6UX
Tel 01526 352903
Web www.caravancampingsites.co.uk
Open All year

Where to go: THE MUCKLEBURGH COLLECTION, NORFOLK

Location Weybourne Military Camp, Weybourne, Norfolk
Tel 01263 588210
Web www.muckleburgh.co.uk
Open 4 April-31 October
Admission Adults £5.50. Senior citizens and HM Forces £4.50. Children £3. Family £13.50
 •  WWII tanks, armoured cars, artillery and other military hardware make this the UK's biggest private collection of its type.
The 300-acre site, which was set up as a Territorial Army training camp in the 1930s, became an anti-aircraft artillery range after hostilities broke out in 1939.
The museum is based in the restored NAAFI building and also houses the Suffolk & Norfolk Yeomanry Collection and a Norfolk At War display, which chronicles the activities of the armed forces and local civilian organisations during WWII.

Where to stay: KELLING HEATH

Address Weybourne, Holt, Norfolk NR25 7HW
Tel 01263 588181
Website www.kellingheath.co.uk
Open 14 February-12 December

Where to go: MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL AVIATION

Location East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, Scotland EH39 5LF
Web www.nms.ac.uk/flight
Open 10am-5pm April-October. 11am-4pm weekends November-March
Admission Adults £4. Concessions £3. Under-12s free.
 •  This collection dates back to 1909 when the Royal Scottish Museum acquired a model of the Wright Brothers' biplane. It occupies part of a former RAF airfield now scheduled to be listed as an historic monument.
The museum has about 50 complete aircraft, including several examples from WWII. Special emphasis is placed upon planes built or flown in Scotland.

Where to stay: EDINBURGH CARAVAN CLUB SITE

Address Marine Drive, Edinburgh EH4 5EN
Tel 0131 3126874
Tel www.caravanclub.co.uk
Open All year

Where to go: PORTHCURNO MUSEUM OF SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGY

Location Eastern House, Porthcurno, Cornwall TR19 6JX
Tel 01736 810478
Web www.porthcurno.org.uk
Open 10am-5pm 1 March to 31 October. 1 Nov-1 March 2005 Sundays and Mondays. Evening tours arranged by appointment.
 •  Porthcurno was where the international undersea telephone cables connecting Britain to the five continents came ashore. It achieved great importance as a nerve centre of wartime communications.
In 1941, tunnels were blasted through the eastern cliffs to provide bombproof protection for the cable transmission centre. They are now open to visitors who can see the original equipment and also try their hand at operating sections of it.
While much of the apparatus, dates back to the 1930s and earlier, it's in remarkably pristine condition.

Where to stay: POLMANTER TOURING PARK

Address Halsetown, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 3LX
Tel 01736 795640
Website www.polmanter.com
Open 27 March-31 October

Where to go: ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM, COSFORD

Location Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire TF11 8U
Web www.raf.modern.uk/cosford
Open 10am to 6pm, every day apart from 24-26 December and 1 January
Admission Free, excluding some special events
 •  Three WWII hangars contain one of the UK's largest aviation collections with extensive displays, including more than 50 rockets and missiles. There are also aeroplane engines, including powerplants from early piston-engined aircraft to the modern jet.
British, German, Japanese and US warplanes are also housed here, including the Spitfire and Hurricane. But it's not just WWII on show; post-war bombers such as Vulcans, and Lightnings are on display,too.

Where to stay: SEVERN GORGE PARK

Address Bridgnorth Road, Tweedale, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4JB
Tel 01952 684789
Website www.severngorgepark.co.uk
Open All year

Where to go: THE TANK MUSEUM, BOVINGTON

Location Bovington, Dorset BH20 6JG
Tel 01929 405096
Web www.tankmuseum.co.uk
Open 10am-5pm every day, apart from 22-29 December and 1 January.
Admission Adults £8. Senior citizens and disabled £7.50. Children (5-16) £6. Family of four £23.
 •  The five huge halls of the Tank Museum at Bovington house the world's largest and finest collection of armoured fighting vehicles, from the very first tanks which came into action towards the close of WWI to the latest main battle tank of the British army – the Challenger.
Nearly 300 vehicles from 26 countries are featured, and during school holidays the collection is brought to life with a 'Tanks in Action' live demonstrations, mock battles and vehicles rides.

Where to stay: WAREHAM FOREST TOURIST

Address North Trigon, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 7NZ
Tel 01929 551393
Website www.wareham-forest
Open All year

Full information about the following parks and visits can be found in the February 2005 issue of Practical Caravan. For back issues telephone 08456 777812. Admission Price and Opening Times were correct at the time of publishing. Please check for latest information before visiting.